it s a good looking picture of new york city. live from chopper 4, t.j.? is that chopper 4? friends at wnbc giving us a beautiful look at the city. nfl thursday night football, and the eagles are officially a disaster. as exemplified on this 15-yard touchdown run by lynch. he s bottled up at the 10, surrounded by eagles, but somehow emerges from that pile and runs it in for the touchdown. look how he celebrates on the sideline. we know his secret. the jet fuel is skittles. he eats skittles to fuel up for the game. and he bounces it outside, 40 yards this time for the touchdown, 148 and two scores, the fourth time in the last games. makes the grab, gets two down as
but they pushed the chopper 4 button instead of the seven-second delay. keystone cops, really? what do we have coming up? i see two gentlemen over your shoulder. i had the privilege last night of presenting an award to the gentleman on the right there, jake wood, we ll talk to him when we come back. and he s got good hair. terrific. [ male announcer ] the peace of mind of owning a 2011 iihs top safety pick. the all-new volkswagen passat.
brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the city s flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. it s business as usual until suddenly the helicopter s camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. suddenly we heard a loud boom! when we looked up, there it was. we saw the helicopter. i said the helicopter is in distress. another news helicopter responding to the same story starts filming the chopper 4 s wild fall from the sky. it suddenly started coming right down. but guess where it was coming? right down at us. we started running. it came right down coming down, i said, no, no, no, no, no. the helicopter with two pilots and a reporter on board twirls and twists around like a
half mile wide max tornado. this is a deadly, absolutely deadly tornado. that s all it is. this is a killer. these are incredible pictures from chopper 4. i got debris. that s in goldsby. look at all of the debris. that s the town being hit by a tornado there. lgoj at these people waving for help. waving for help. look at this. these people came out of their house, mike. i don t know if they are trying to wave us down. don t know if somebody is hurt or what. they came out of the house. pull back, chuck. that s their house. it is just gone. this is incredible, mike. absolutely incredible. they are covered in mud. and there s another mobile home here in front of me that s just gone.
everybody is. i was glad to see yesterday republican leaders say how come he didn t talk about entitlements. i think that s progress, because what we had been hearing made it sound as if we just slash deeper on education or, you know, other provisions in the domestic spending that somehow that alone was going to solve the problem. i welcome that. i think it was significant progress that there is an interest on all sides on those issues. welcome back to morning joe. what a shot. that s pretty, chopper 4. mike barnicle is still with us and joining the table, chairman of deutsch incorporated, donny deutsch and also in washington, political writer for the huffington post, sam stein. nice to have you on board as well. thank you. could somebody decipher what the president just said? he said i didn t have the courage to tackle entitlements